90s Movies That Transport Us to Simpler Times
1. Good Burger
2. Heavyweights
3. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
4. The Big Green
5. 3 Ninjas
6. D2: The Mighty Ducks
7. Space Jam
8. Seventeen Again
9. The Baby-Sitters Club
10. The Parent Trap
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90s nostalgia is everywhere in 2018, and we couldn’t be happier.
The best way to go back in time and soak up some much-needed 90s nostalgia is with a great 90s flick.
Finding a great 90s movie isn’t too hard (there were many) but there are a handful that stand out today as quintessentially-90s, and highly effective as time machines.
Read on for 10 movies from the 90s that will transport you back to the decade.
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Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell made their big-screen debut with a fan-favorite in 1997, Good Burger, and 20 years later, it’s even better.
Dexter and Ed have their neighborhood burger joint threatened when fast-food chain Mondo burger sets up across the street. Luckily, Ed formulates a delicious secret sauce that could save Good Burger, but Mondo Berger manager, Kurt (Jan Schweiterman), will stop at nothing to get his hands on the new sauce.
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Although Gerry (Aaron Schwartz) isn’t looking forward to summer camp for overweight kids, it ends up being OK. The camp is run by the Bushkins (Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara), who let the boys have fun. However, things go horribly awry when the camp is turned over to fitness freak Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller), who turns the camp into a nightmare. But don’t worry – the boys have a plan.
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The Power Rangers are integral to so many childhoods, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is the best way to get some instant nostalgia.
In the movie, a villain named Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) is accidentally released, posing the toughest job yet for the Power Rangers. Their job gets even tougher when Ooze kills their mentor, Zordon, who controlled the giant robots that the Rangers depended on in battle.
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While on an exchange program in a small Texas town, English school teacher Miss Anna (Olivia d’Abo) realizes that the Texan kids are completely disenfranchised with life. In an attempt to boost their spirits, Miss Anna sets up a soccer team. The only problem? None of the kids have ever played soccer.
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3 Ninjas was every teenage boy’s dream. Rocky (Michael Treanor), Colt (Max Elliott Slade) and Tum Tum Douglas (Chad Power) are brothers who stay with their Ninjutsu master grandpa (Victor Wong) and learn the vast power of Ninjutsu. But their skills are quickly put to the test when criminal Snyder (Rand Kingsley) kidnaps the boys in an attempt to get their FBI agent father.
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Emilio Estevez stars in D2: The Mighty Ducks as the hockey coach designated to lead Team USA at an international junior hockey tournament in Los Angeles.
To boost his chances of winning the tournament, he reunites his old team, the “Mighty Ducks,” and trains them to take on Iceland at the tournament.
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The actual quality of Space Jam is certainly debatable, but that’s completely beside the point: Space Jam is a unicorn of a movie that everyone should see. Michael Jordan, Bill Murray, Danny Devito, Charles Barkley, and the Looney Tunes cast all star in this wacky, hilarious movie about cartoon characters who steal NBA player’s powers to fight a villain.
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Sure, the remake with Zac Efron was great, but the original Seventeen Again is near-and-dear to anyone who watched it in the 90s.
When a lab experiment goes wrong, The Donovans turn from bickering old grandparents to 17-year-olds. Needless to say, they end up learning a few lessons.
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The Baby-Sitters Club movie is another 90s classic that is sure to send you back in time. Based on the best-selling books of the same name, the movie follows six teenagers struggling to make their babysitting business into a summer camp. But even though the girls are industrious and already very successful babysitters, they have roadblocks including crushes, mean neighbors, and divorced parents.
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The Parent Trap remake oozes with 90s nostalgia, and delivers a highly re-watchable story you probably already know. Two twins, separated at birth, bump into each other at summer camp, and realize they don’t just look identical. In an attempt to meet their parents (and hopefully reunite them), the girls switch places at the end of camp.
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